Banner launches one-stop neuro patient care services

Banner University Medical Center in Phoenix has new, comprehensive one-stop services for critically ill neurology patients. These new, one-stop-shop services include all the most advanced and innovative treatments for individuals suffering from strokes, traumatic brain and spine injuries, comas, seizures and status epilepticus, among many other conditions.

Dr. Khalid Alsherbini, a Neurologist at the Banner University Medical Center in Phoenix, joined “Arizona Horizon” to discuss these new patient care services.

“We put together a team of what we call comprehensive multidisciplinary team that includes providers who have the specialty training in the field of neurocritical care. In addition to all the team members that help provide the most comprehensive and innovative care for those patients that includes pharmacists, nurses, physical therapists, behavioral therapists, occupational therapists, nutritionists to provide that care that’s needed for these, basically the sickest of the sick,” Dr. Alsherbini said.

This one-stop approach to critical neurology care is quite unique in terms of treatment approaches across the country according to Dr. Alsherbini.

“It’s usually fragmented so there’s only the most comprehensive centers in the United States that can provide that care especially with a degree of the innovative technology that we brought to the Valley,” Dr. Alsherbini said.

Dr. Alsherbini also gave some insight into why this approach to treating those who are critically ill is the future of comprehensive treatment.

“The collaboration and what we call the precision medicine that we know that patients behave differently and they have different way of reacting to medicine. And that’s where we’re relying on technology and artificial intelligence and all of these new tools that we’re using to provide that specific care for that particular patient,” Dr. Alsherbini said.